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- From: ctm@math.Berkeley.EDU (Curtis T. McMullen)
- Subject: Re: decidability and dynamical systems
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- This answer is yes (it is decidable) for a large class of
- algebraic endomorphisms of varieties where everything is defined over the
- rationals. For example, let f(x) = x^2 + c where c is rational.
- Define the height of a rational number p/q (where (p,q)=1) as
- h(p/q) = log max(1,|p|,|q|). Then it is easy to see that
- for x rational, h(f(x)) = 2 h(x) + O(1) (the implied constant depends on c).
- This gives an a prior bound on the height of all rational points with
- finite forward orbits, thus a bound on the number of such points,
- and also on the size of their forward orbits.
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- References:
- J. Silverman, Rational points on K3 surfaces: A new canonical height.
- Invent. math. 105 (1991), 347-373.
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- G. Call and J. Silverman, Canonical heights on varieties with morphisms.
- Preprint 1992.
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